[Dovecot] dovecot-lda, sieve, maildir

[Frank Cusack]

On July 3, 2006 11:55:38 PM -0700 Frank Cusack <fcusack at fcusack.com> wrote:
> On July 3, 2006 11:56:00 AM +1000 Peter Fern <dovecot at obfusc8.org> wrote:
>> Frank Cusack wrote:
>>> I'm unable to get dovecot-lda with sieve filtering to deliver into
>>> maildir folders.  The examples on the wiki explicitly say "mbox", so
>>> I'm wondering, does the dovecot-lda sieve implementation not support
>>> filtering into maildir folders?
>>>
>>> -frank
>> Maildirs work fine, example:
>
> hmm, not for me.  Here's the entirety of my .dovecot.sieve:
>
> require ["fileinto", "vacation"];
>
># test
> if address :is "from" "user at list.org" {
>   fileinto "fcusack/inbox";
> }
>
>
> If I start from scratch and create ~/Mail, I can send a test message
> which gets filed correctly (new subdir fcusack is created with new
> mbox file inbox).
>
> If I start from scratch and create ~/Maildir, the same message is created
> in ~/Maildir/new.  Even if I create ~/Maildir/.fcusack.inbox the message
> is not filed there.
>
> Any ideas what might be wrong?

And of course, as soon as I sent the last email I figured it out.  Using
'.' instead of '/' as folder separator fixed it.  Why does Maildir require
a different folder separator?  Isn't this a bug?

-frank